Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Mennonite Quarterly Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
87,2 (2013) 133-153
Keywords:
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Jewish children in the Holocaust
;
Church history 20th century
Abstract:
Prior to and during World War II various Protestant organizations in the Netherlands and elsewhere tried to help persecuted Jews. Discusses the initiative taken by Dutch Mennonites to assist and rescue a group of 39 Christian children of Jewish or partly Jewish origin, who had been brought to the Netherlands from Germany and Austria after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. This was done as part of the broader Kindertransport program, and the children were meant to be transferred to Great Britain. In March 1939, 39 such children were settled in Fredeshiem, a Mennonite retreat center, and were transferred in June 1939 to Johanneshof, near Arnhem. After the Nazis closed the children's home Johanneshof (unaware that it had "non-Aryan" wards), the Mennonite organization found foster families for the children. It also provided some of them with "Aryan" identities. Six of the children perished during the Holocaust; the rest survived, and some of them remained in the Netherlands after the war.
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